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Showing Original Post only (View all)"That's 98 electoral votes away from making the electoral college effectively irrelevant." [View all]
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This will bring the total number of electoral votes covered by the National Popular Vote Compact to 172 (=11 states plus DC)so that's 98 electoral votes away from making the electoral college effectively irrelevant.
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Connecticut governor announces he'll sign the National Popular Vote reform bill of Electoral College heading toward his desk after 21-14 bipartisan vote in state senate
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Popular-vote-for-president-passes-General-Assembly-12891062.php
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This will bring the total number of electoral votes covered by the National Popular Vote Compact to 172 (=11 states plus DC)so that's 98 electoral votes away from making the electoral college effectively irrelevant.
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Connecticut governor announces he'll sign the National Popular Vote reform bill of Electoral College heading toward his desk after 21-14 bipartisan vote in state senate
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Popular-vote-for-president-passes-General-Assembly-12891062.php
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"That's 98 electoral votes away from making the electoral college effectively irrelevant." [View all]
Miles Archer
May 2018
OP
There is nothing stopping a determined legislature and governor from changing the law
tritsofme
May 2018
#3
Just pointing out that such a pact would be inherently unstable and likely to fail.
tritsofme
May 2018
#7
In the sense that it is less doubtful we will send men back to the moon by the end of the year
tritsofme
May 2018
#22
They actually voted to do so a few hours before the SCOTUS decision. This is a part of history
stevenleser
May 2018
#10
State legislatures can change how their electors are awarded at any time, a state law would not
stevenleser
May 2018
#34
What a shocking surprise that we elect our presidents by electoral vote and not popular vote!
elocs
May 2018
#5
Even in Missouri the idea of spliting the state up into chunks was or has ...
SWBTATTReg
May 2018
#28
As long as it's just blue states signing up, it doesn't really make any difference.
Captain Stern
May 2018
#27
The day a State gives its EVs to a candidate that didn't win the majority of the State's votes...
brooklynite
May 2018
#32